Finding the right brand ambassador for your business or product is essential for building a strong and authentic brand image. Here are steps to help you find and select the perfect brand ambassador:
Define Your Goals and Objectives: Determine your objectives for having a brand ambassador. Are you looking to increase brand awareness, boost sales, improve your social media presence, or something else? Identify Your Target Audience: Understand your target audience and their preferences. Your brand ambassador should resonate with your ideal customers. Know Your Brand Values and Identity: Clearly define your brand's values, personality, and identity. Look for a brand ambassador whose personal brand aligns with yours. Set a Budget: Determine your budget for compensating or partnering with a brand ambassador. Some ambassadors may require payment, while others may work for product samples or exposure. Create a List of Potential Ambassadors: Identify…What Is Brand, Anyway? The Seven Layers of Brand and How They Fuel Your Business
Excerpted from Forging an Ironclad Brand: A Leader's Guide
We all use the word "brand" as though everyone else's understanding of it were the same as ours. Yet chances are it's not, says Lindsay Pedersen, author of Forging an Ironclad Brand.
"Logo is part of brand," she says. "TV and social media are parts of brand. Naming is part of brand. So are your product, your customer experience, and your SEO tactics. So are your font, your tagline, your business's personality, and the color of your employee uniforms. But none of those are, by themselves, brand."
To make smart decisions around shaping and communicating your brand strategy, it's important to understand all the aspects. In her book, Pedersen identifies seven layers of brand:
Brand Is What You Stand For. It's what you mean to your customer. It's the place you occupy in his or her mind. Everything your business does either reinforces your meaning, solidifying and growing its place in the customer's mind—or it we…
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Three Marketing Strategies to Skyrocket Your Business
You have a website. You know you've nailed it with your sales copy. You have a variety of products. The only thing missing... a steady flow of potential clients in your market.
Sounds easy, doesn’t it? The truth is, though, marketing is the one thing that holds coaches just like you back from success. Maybe you don’t know where to begin, or perhaps you’re afraid of putting yourself out there, or maybe consistency is your biggest problem.
Learn how to set the right goals for your business!
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Whatever the case, if you want to grow your business, you must master marketing. Start with these proven strategies, and you’ll be well on your way to coaching stardom.
Nail Your Brand
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Just because you have the best product in the world doesn’t guarantee that you will be rich.
If you have been in business for a while, its likely you have heard the phrase: "build a better mousetrap, and the world will build a path to your doorstep."
while it might still ring true, several decades ago, there really weren’t many products around. Yes it is true that there are inventions like the light bulb or the discovery of electricity, but there really wasn’t much competition for the Nobel Prize. Technology had not reached the stage where innovation and ingenuity was conceptualized as it is at today’s speed.
When the term was coined, there weren’t a lot of ‘better’ mousetraps around.
Today, better mousetraps are built on a daily basis. Just because you have a better product, doesn’t mean that the product will automatically sell itself and make you rich!
Anything new or better was easily noticed by the masses because there wasn’t much competition. And people wer…
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A Logo? Do You REALLY Need One?
Just about everyone seems to think that a logo is some type of added luxury for wildly successful businesses. That could not be any further from the truth. A logo is what works hand-in-hand with you to push your business forward and inspire curiosity in customers year-round.
So really the main question you should ask yourself is “are you serious about your business or not?” If you are indeed determined to create your own successful business, then you must create a logo.
Below you will find 10 reasons why you should begin crafting a logo ASAP:
1. Promoting business. A logo is all about reflecting your business image to as many people as possible. Customers, return customers, casual consumer’s flipping through a newspaper, the millions of men and women surfing the web, etc…
This promotes business non-stop because the logo will tell the viewer what you are all about and that you can be taken you …